On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Gerald Bauer wrote: > > WHAT WG is a new by-invitation-only W3C alternative > launched by Mozilla, Opera & Apple that excludes > Microsoft
Wow, so many mistakes in such a short paragraph. It's not by-invitation-only. Anyone can join. Many dozens of people already have. You just have to subscribe to a mailing list. It's not a W3C alternative. It's just an informal group coming up with some proposals that can then be submitted to a standards organisation (such as W3C or IETF) for standardisation. (Other examples of specs developed in this matter are PNG and more recently Atom.) Apple did not "launch" this group, it was launched by Opera and Mozilla. Microsoft is not excluded, they are as welcome as anyone else. Indeed at the recent workshop on Web Applications, Microsoft were one of the few groups that indicated interest in the work. http://whatwg.org/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
